TOUGH REVIEWS FOR CLINTON’S CAMPAIGN ROLL OUT
The roll out of Hillary Clinton’s campaign is being blasted from all corners. The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson wrote, “in some ways there was more substance in this week’s ‘Saturday Night Live’” skit than Clinton’s video, while The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri said the video looked like “some sort of detergent commercial, intended to air during the Olympics.” Also writing in The Washington Post, columnist Ruth Marcus called Clinton’s video “relentlessly, insultingly vapid” and opined that it was like “a Verizon commercial without the substance.”
Politico’s Roger Simon points out that Clinton trying to reinvent herself is nothing new. In fact, Simon says “she has invented herself almost as many times as Edison tried to invent the light bulb.”
The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift said it looks like “Queen Hillary is coming onto the stage, that she deserves it, thinks she deserves it.”
Even Clinton’s supporters are complaining about the campaign roll out. Clinton’s campaign “is frustrating some supporters with its lack of concrete plans.” A former Clinton staffer said “I can’t believe I missed ‘Game of Thrones’ for this”—referring to team Clinton’s strategy call Sunday night. Talking Points Memo notes that “missing from Hillary Clinton’s newly-minted presidential campaign website is a section discussing the policies she’ll seek to implement.”
As if that weren’t enough, one of the Iowa voters featured in Clinton’s video said he wants to see other Democrats enter the race:
